Monthly Archives: March 2008

PolitickerNJ is reporting that veteran GOP strategist Roger Stone will be the guest speaker at an April 16 fundraiser for Essex County Republican Chairman Kevin O’Toole. Stone is a fascinating and colorful figure who has played a role in GOP politics for decades. But I believe he has gone over the line by creating an anti-Hillary Clinton committee named Citizens United Not Timid. Why choose a name with such a crude acronym? “Truth is, we sat around for hours trying to come up with words for BITCH and just couldn’t do it,” Stone told The Weekly Standard.

O’Toole has a reputation as a bright and articulate legislator, who earns respect on both sides of the aisle. He can earn some more by putting some distance between himself and Mr. Stone.

I haven’t been posting as frequently as usual this month. Instead, I’ve been taking part in some special events.

I participated in Rutgers University’s Celebration of Recently Published Faculty Authors on March 25. This was because I teach part-time at the university and also authored one of the chapters in the Hall Institute’s book Reaction and Reform in New Jersey.

Bernard Goldberg’s book Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite will be the focus of a special program at the Princeton Public Library on Wednesday, April 9. Joan Goldstein, a sociologist, author and professor at Mercer County Community College, will lead the discussion. The session starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Quite Room on the first floor of the library (65 Witherspoon Street). Joan will be presenting a similar program on Payl Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal on Wednesday, May 14. Time and location are the same.

The paper aims to illustrate the impact that the state’s newspapers have had on its transportation system and to underscore the significance of the media’s role in the current debate over Governor Corzine’s proposal to raise tolls to fund transportation improvements and pay down state debt. It includes a series of case studies and examples, ranging from the pre-Revolutionary War era to the Governor’s present proposal.

In this paper, I review the role of the internet in election campaigns and examine how print newspapers are using their online versions to provide election results in a manner that is just as timely as — and sometimes more than — the electronic media.